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Minutes? so, i think that is a testament to our county being on high alert, our being prepared and communicating with each other, and trying to temper down this circus atmosphere and really just conduct the business of engaging in a criminal prosecution and treating this president, as best we can, like we would any defendant been robbed for the court. >> with your experience, representative miller, as a former assistant district attorney in fulton county, when you saw defendant chesebro file his...

And chesebro and the others realize thats the point. so i agree with gwen and others. defendants often want to sever cases, and they want to be able to say, its the people who arent here that did it. its not necessarily easy, and i think the speedy trial motion really could be thought of as a sort of de facto way to sever his case. what he really got, yes hes gotta roll the dice because she may say, okay, i will see you october 23rd, but he gets to be on his own, he gets to be first, he gets to ...

Including mark meadows, that was struck down at about 4:30 this afternoon. the district attorney had, said if you dont surrender yourself by noon tomorrow theres going to be trouble. >> yes, there is 19 different defendants, theres 19 different moving. parts each of them have their own cases. and theyre each following their own legal strategies. several codefendants, as you, say have already tried to remove their cases to the federal court. several have pursued their own motions. several have th...

Issues. and we will see him do that. we will hold the hearing that needs to be held on monday, and make a decision to act on both sides and present whatever -- choose to offer. >> and really quickly, gwen, if the judge decides to move this to federal court, that means he moves all of the indictments the federal court. is that right? >> that is my understanding. >> wow. >> now, there may be various motions to sever, or other things. i know one defendant filed a speedy trial demand in fulton count...

19 will be tried within those speedy trial guidelines, or whether there will be other severances or breaking the case down into bite sized pieces. so, many of us who track georgia law are debating about this behind the scenes, and we are waiting to see what comes out of the hearing on monday as well as the speedy trial motion. >> i am sure that georgia legal circles are a twitter. mimi rocah, to gwens point, kenneth chesebro, who is one of the co-defendants in this, and in many ways one of the a...

Waters with people who arent following this closely. >> and to your point, we saw this with mar-a-lago raid and with new york attorney charges. most of the republicans running against donald trump came out and talked about what an outrage it was. >> yeah. so, you had two things coming together here, right? the existence of this narrative of persecution helps him politically. and the longer he can delay the outcome of this trial, the better off he is from a legal, tactical standpoint. he doesnt w...

>> i mean these are pretty startling allegations. now victim two never testified, ann, as you know. if he was saying what ziegler was saying he was saying that he was the greatest thing that ever happened to him, no molestation, why didnt they put him on the stand? >> absolutely. the thing that comes down to this, in the michael jackson trial, 40-year-old men dont have sleepovers. jerry sandusky, grown men dont shower with little boys. the fact is they have to try this case which is a really dif...

If he was saying what ziegler was saying he was saying that he was the greatest thing that ever happened to him, no molestation, why didnt they put him on the stand? >> absolutely. the thing that comes down to this, in the michael jackson trial, 40-year-old men dont have sleepovers. jerry sandusky, grown men dont shower with little boys. the fact is they have to try this case which is a really difficult case in a defense. and the fact is should they put the evidence on in yes. they said we didnt...

He gets an opportunity to ask him on the stand and takes a pass. jon: and he says he has proof. what is the prosecution making of all this? >> reporter: well, yesterday they were pretty quiet because it was entirely a day for the defense to put on its case for a potential new trial during this hearing, but, frankly, it was quite clear that james glascow the prosecutor didnt really know what to make of it. >> very satisfied with wha the way court went this mourn. we are in unchartered waters. ive...

This divorce cases or contemplated desourc divorce cn order to get more money. we wanted to give the jury a reason why she would fabricate. unfortunately, he didnt tell the same story he told before under oath and in police reports and we will put as part of our post trial motion the fact that he did change his stories under oath and in fact when said the concealment to homicide was the vice he gave, you look at the statute, failure to report a homicide is not concealment so either he was -- >> ...